Going by their Mastodon account, seems they were erroneously detected as “from a US-sanctioned region” and it took too long for said error to be resolved, so they just made the switch.

of course not!

Yeah, it’s fake, and as other commenters have pointed out, it’s also inaccurate to how the GPLv2 works. It was not meant to convince anyone.

I came across a bunch of those recently, which is how I came up with the idea for this, as a parody :)

Internet horror is disappointingly un-creative. I have no idea why the weakest works (sonic.exe, anti-piracy, kill screens) always end up becoming huge trends, or why so few people try to put a significant twist on said trends.

Tons of companies are shipping Linux without giving users access to the source code, it’s just that only one has the term “Tivoization” named after it.

I’m not averse to trying new foods, but I have strong aversions to certain foods that I have tried. If I have a bad experience with one food, I will not be willing to try it again for a very long time, possibly ever. And if I have a good experience with one food, and it is easily available to me, it will remain in regular rotation for a very long time.

I’m using an AMD Ryzen iGPU on Wayland. I switched to Testing because the support already existed, but the kernel and mesa versions in stable were buggy for my particular GPU and I didn’t want to make a FrankenDebian.

For me, the outdated packages in stable have actually gotten better over time, as DEs get closer to a place where I don’t need any major updates to enjoy using them, Flatpaks become more readily available, and on a subjective level, I get less and less invested in current Linux news. Before Debian became my “forever distro”, I’d hopped to it a few times, and often found myself wishing for a newer piece of software that wasn’t in backports or flathub, or simply being bored with how stable it is, but that’s been happening less and less. And I feel like Debian 12 in particular left me with software that I wouldn’t mind being stuck with for two years.

I’ve gotten warnings to upgrade my browser with Debian’s Firefox ESR, but they never affected a website’s usability in a way that a newer version would fix, and they do provide security updates and new ESR series when they come out; even if you must have the newest Firefox, you can use the Flatpak.

Additionally, I’m currently on testing in order to get better support for my GPU, and each time I’ve tried to use it, it’s worked for me for a longer time than the last as I get better at resolving or avoiding broken packages. If you do experience issues like the one you described, and can replicate them, and no one else has already reported them, you should report them to Debian’s bug tracker. The whole point of Testing is to find and squash all the critical bugs before the next stable releases.

Moderately "leave me the fuck alone", and usually indifferent but a number of things can swing me into extreme silliness.

There was still Wine, and PlayOnLinux helped further, but when I looked for a game I wanted to play on WineDB, there was no guarantee it even had an entry, and if it wasn't listed as "platinum", the chance of you experiencing any reported issue was very high.

Not to mention, playing Steam games that weren't native was an impossibility.

Thankfully I was more of a console gamer at the time, and I got a lot of enjoyment out of the few games that received Linux ports - like Team Fortress 2!

If you're using Debian stable, hopefully you fully expect and want not to get major software updates until long after they release, in exchange for a more predictable system.

I'm excited for Plasma 6 but I'm very willing to wait for it, and stick to 5.27 as a daily driver for the next year.

No, but I do remember using the autism(at)a.gup.pe group. Not sure it still exists but I had some nice interactions there.

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Used to, left recently. But the autistic community there was easily one of the best parts.

Even worse: the .deb file's dependences are only available in a specific version of Ubuntu LTS or with PPAs.

I listen to music all the time, so probably, but most of the true sensory overloads I remember were when the album I was playing already finished and I still had them on… so I suppose I’ll keep that in mind, that transitioning out of noise cancelling may be easier during music.

The problem is, for me, noise cancelling often either isn’t enough, or creates a much bigger sensory problem when I inevitably have to take the headphones off.

And the settings with a big enough loudness problem to justify noise-cancelling tend to be ones where having to turn it off is inevitable before the noise dies down (to talk to someone)… so I usually don’t bother.

This is weirdly common, from what I’ve heard. You’d think it would be obvious that a disorder (or neurotype, or whatever you call autism) requires accommodation, which requires self-advocacy, which requires being allowed to know what’s going on with you.

I don’t have this with bright light; that makes me uncomfortable, and I sometimes want to wince at it. But I may still experience what you’re describing from other stimuli. For example, crowds don’t always make me uncomfortable, but the excess sensory input from cross-talking can make it hard to focus or think, and have the effect of making me unable to take things seriously.

On the other hand, certain kinds of music can have a hypnotizing effect, and make me absolutely focused on whatever task I’m in the middle of. Though I consider that more beneficial, as it helps me get through schoolwork and some “adulting”. It doesn’t make me completely shut down or anything like that.

F-Droid is the more valuable app store anyway. I always check there before Google Play.